Divorced for two years, Nancy Caruthers, asks her new lover, Paul Adams, a medical student, to move in. She has custody of her two daughters, but this new living arrangement prompts her ex-husband, Richard to sue for custody, based on moral grounds. He does not really want the girls to live with him, but his strict religious background will not allow him to stand by and let them be raised in an atmosphere of 'sin.'

While observing life outside his shop, a barber thinks he sees someone who is after his life and his family. Confronted with imminent danger, the barber decides to react.

Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.

A boy with Tourette's syndrome overcomes criticism and discrimination to achieve his dream of becoming a teacher.

She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day. A few days ago she kind of burst in to stay with her sister, and she is now becoming re-accustomed to life in Korea. While seeming to keep a grave secret to herself, she manages life one day at a time with a sense of mindfulness. Meanwhile a certain director, some years younger than her, has asked her to join his project, and after a polite refusal, they have agreed to meet for the first time today. Downtown Seoul is filled with narrow alleys that harbor tiny old bars, and that's where they meet. As they are getting drunk, there is sudden rainfall and thunder.

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.

A young playboy who learns he has one month until he becomes infertile sets out to procreate as much as possible.

A father joins his son as he searches for Heaven in the night's sky, each hoping to catch a glimpse of his own grandmother.

A middle-aged woman tries to get married to her younger finance but is hindered by her four grown children who come bearing grudges.

In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when, as a young film student he travelled to the Ureweras and documented the lives of an elderly Māori woman (Puhi) and her schizophrenic son (Niki).